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Ma’moon Al-Akash

Web Developer

Contact Information

1. Cell number: +962-**-*******

2. E-mail: ********@*****.***

3. City: Amman

4. State: Jordan

Education

1. Holding a bachelor degree in computer science from Al-Yarmouk university (http://www.yu.edu.jo/en/)

2. High school graduate from Al-Ettihad school (http://ittihad.com.jo/En/)

EXPERIENCE

Web Developer, Yahoo! Inc. (http://www.yahoo.com/)

Amman, Jordan 2009-Present

Responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting web products, Leading a team of developers in the progress of product building and maintaining, And a solo developer in the process of backend development using PHP and other tools.

Accomplishments

1. http://maktoob.screen.yahoo.com/:

Developing and maintaining a video site backend and content integration - video and image processing for an intensive amount of videos, integrating content feeding with various video providers such as Al-Jazeera, Rotana, and a lot of other providers.

1. http://newlook.maktoob.yahoo.com/:

Developing and maintaining the backend of a woman makeup and makeover application, responsibilities include image processing with human face elements detection, creating C++ apache modules and PHP interfaces to handle RESTfull requests for the APIs.

Web Developer, Maktoob Inc. (http://www.maktoob.com/)

Amman, Jordan 2006-2009

Team leader and developer, responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting the media channel in the web portal.

Accomplishments

1. http://clipat.maktoob.com/:

Leading, developing, and maintaining the video site in the portal using various amount of technologies for video processing, image processing, caching techniques, video streaming, and a lot of other aspects.

1. http://zoom.maktoob.com/:

Leading, developing, and maintaining the photography site in the portal which is very related to http://flickr.com/, a very intensive usage of image processing tools like imagemagick, GD library.

1. http://cards.maktoob.com/:

Leading, developing, and maintaining a greeting cards site in the portal which is very related to http://www.123greetings.com/, image processing and caching tools have been intinsevly used in this application.

1. http://tvguide.maktoob.com/:

Leading, developing, and maintaining a TV guide site that used to show the TV shows schedule for a various amount of TV channels from a certain number of content feeding providers.

Web Developer, Al-Bawaba Inc. (http://www.albawaba.com/)

Amman, Jordan 2005-2006

Web Developer, building, maintaining, and supporting Al-Bawaba’s blogging service.

Accomplishments

1. http://blogs.albawaba.com/:

Solo developer for building and maintaining the blogging service, using lifetype (http://lifetype.net/) blogging platform to build the service

Web Developer, Yadonia Group. (http://yadonia.com/)

Amman, Jordan 2004-2005

Web Developer, building, maintaining, and supporting corporates sites.

Accomplishments

1. I was mainly responsible for building the corporate websites.

SKILLS

1. PHP (Main programming language).

2. PHP Frameworks and Platforms (CakePHP, Wordpress, LifeType, Drupal)

3. MySQL (database design, and sharding)

4. Javscript (jQuery, and YUI3).

5. HTML

6. CSS

7. Linux (RHEL, Debian, and Gentoo).

8. Revision control (svn, and git)

9. Video and Audio Processing (ffmpeg, mplayer, mp3splt, and mencoder)

10. Image Processing (imagemagick, and GD Lib)

11. Face Detection (opencv using C++ interface)

12. Unit testing (PHPUnit, and SimpleTest)

Open Source Contributions

1. Initial project author of Drupal contact list importer http://drupal.org/project/dcl_importer (First module for contact list importing from various providers).

2. CakePHP Patches.

3. Arabic translation for ULTEO (Open Source Virtual Desktop and Application)

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